General Information:

This year, key papers from the meeting will be published in two back to back editions of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A in the early part of 2009, with the title "Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E-Infrastructures". There will be no other proceedings produced. There will also be an opportunity to present your work and ideas as a 20 minute presentation at AHM2008. As there are a limited number of slots for presentations, there will be a selection process.

• Proposers are therefore being asked to submit abstracts (see definition below) rather than full papers.
• You can select whether you want your abstract to be considered for inclusion in Phil. Trans A or not. If accepted for inclusion you will need to produce a paper which goes through a further refereeing process. (See below.)
• You can select whether you are submitting your abstract as part of a workshop or not.
• Submitted abstracts will be selected for inclusion in AHM2008 by the AHM2008 Programme Committee for:
  1. Inclusion in Phil Trans A or
  2. Inclusion as presentations or
  3. Inclusion as posters or
  4. Not suitable for inclusion.
  Talks and posters will appear in electronic format on the conference web pages.
• Submission of abstracts will be on-line at http://www.allhands.org.uk and the completed documents (including diagrams etc) must be received by 15 May 2008.

Critical Dates for Publication:

15 May 2008 Deadline for abstract submission
July 2008 Decisions to authors

And for those abstracts selected to become papers in Phil Trans A:

1 Sep 2008 Deadline for receipt of final papers
13 Oct 2008 Refereeing complete
8 Dec 2008 Deadline for revisions
16 Jan 2009 Deadline for ‘submission’ ready papers

Format:

• The submission should be no more than 1 A4 page of text or up to two pages if it includes diagrams, tables and references, with the extra space devoted to these and any captions.
• Font size should be no smaller than 10 pt Times New Roman. With 2.5cm margins, one page of A4 text is around 800 words and this is the maximum for text.
• Anyone submitting an abstract for consideration for publication in Phil Trans A should assume that they will need the full page of text to describe their work convincingly.
• All diagrams and tables should be positioned in their proper place in relation to the text, ensuring that the total contribution does not exceed 2 pages.
• As these abstracts will not be published in a proceedings, authors are free to choose the layout (columnar, full page) for their document. However the following information must be included in the document:
• Title
• Author(s) and their institution(s)
• Where the document is more than 1 page, headers and footers giving the abstract title and ‘page x of y’ information for easy identification of every page.
• Note that as part of the on-line process you will need to enter a 100 word summary of the abstract for inclusion in the conference programme.
• Documents should be submitted in PDF format only.

Enquiries: Please address any enquiries about abstract submission to admin@allhands.org.uk